Jolien Kruit
Lawyer, Partner
Jolien has worked as a lawyer at Van Traa since 2005. She mainly deals with disputes and questions related to water transport. She specialises in maritime and inland water transport law in a broad sense and related private international law issues. Jolien regularly acts as an arbitrator, is a guest lecturer at the Master Maritime and Transport Law of the Erasmus School of Law and at Leiden University, and regularly publishes on various transport law topics, including ship arrest, global limitation of liability, liability for cargo damage, the maritime court expert, general average and the sustainability of transport.
After completing her master studies in Leiden, she successfully completed the Master Maritime Law in Southampton (2005). In 2017, Jolien obtained her PhD from the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam with the thesis ‘General Average, Legal Basis and Applicable Law’. For this thesis, she received the prestigious Albert Lilar prize.
The Legal 500: ‘Jolien Kruit is an absolute international authority on General Average. A pleasure to work with and you can trust her to achieve the best outcome.'
In addition, Jolien is recommended by Chambers Europe, Transportation (2024 Edition): 'Jolien Kruit advises clients on liability and damages claims, including for oil spills and damage to underwater cables. She also assists clients with general average claims and disputes over the contamination of goods. An interviewee enthuses that ‘ Jolien Kruit knows her law very well. She is very interested in commercial solutions and gets straight to the point. She is a guru in the market."
Jolien is a board member of the Dutch Association for Transport Law (NVV). She is also a member of the International Working Group on Maritime Decarbonisation of the Comité Maritime International, of STIG - Sustainable Transport Insurance Group of WISTA (Women's International Shipping & Trading Association).
- Praktijk
- Transport & Logistics
- Taal
- Dutch, English, German
